When he bought a tired 17th-century cottage, Giles Kime set out to discover if it’s possible to make an old house as ...
James Bond and Auric Goldfinger transfixed cinema goers in Goldfinger, in which a gold-obsessed super-villain plans to detonate a nuclear device in Fort Knox. The reason for doing so is in order to ...
It’s pure histrionics, but when we listen to that call to arms on St Crispin’s Day we cannot but stand a little taller. St ...
One person, however, who might not agree is Steven Smith from Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, who woke up on the weekend to ...
Plus a Paddington Bear hamper, an ancient tree and a house with a terrifying price tag — it's Friday's Dawn Chorus.
Europe's most beautiful concours returned to Chantilly, France, last week and it didn't disappoint. Rosie Paterson was there ...
Annunciata Elwes reports on the new National Hedgehog Conservation Strategy that's been created by two key conservation ...
The British actor tells Hetty Lintell about three objects he can't live without.
Calcareous, nutrient-poor and alkaline (with a pH of 6.5–8.5), England’s chalk downland stretches from Dover to deep into ...
A new book examines the streetscapes of our historic towns and marvels at what we can easily take for granted. Its author, ...
Once considered an exotic addition, cedar trees were frequently employed by ‘Capability’ Brown as topographical punctuation ...
One of the great masterpieces of 19th century, the original Euston Station, was built in the years after Queen Victoria came ...